After chatting with Emperor You, He Ping had also learned crucial intelligence about the future Divine Court, and so set down the arrangements and plans for what came next.
His cooperation with Emperor You involved many pivotal matters of the future. One of them was stabilizing the situation of the Great You Dynasty.
All of this was in service of another grand plan devised by the first Emperor You: "severing off the Heavenly Dao."
According to Emperor You's vision, the periodic Spring-Autumn Great Calamity triggered by the changes in the Three Laws would shake the world each time it occurred. The cultivation world would suffer a grievous blow to its vitality, while the common people would also be harmed as fish caught in the flood.
This was also what the Heavenly Dao wished to see. Just as it had once cut away the paths of "Heaven" and "Man," it was because those two immortal Dao paths had become too formidable and posed an influence upon the Heavenly Dao. Some Manifestation cultivators could more or less sense that the Heavenly Dao itself resembled an emperor, versed in the arts of imperial rule—suppression and balance. The Heavenly and Human paths had offended the Heavenly Dao's taboos, which was why they had been specifically targeted.
Of course, this view regarded the Heavenly Dao matrix as a personified existence. The great sages of old all rejected this notion, believing that "the Heavenly Dao shows no favoritism." All things between Heaven and Earth emphasized balance; the Heavenly Dao itself held no concept of good or evil toward the world, pursuing only equilibrium among all things.
The ancient sages claimed that Heaven and Earth were supremely lofty and profound, dwelling in a body without virtue; their grace spread among all things, yet they possessed no heart